Monthly Archives: August 2009

MANILA, Philippines – Having “shared” IT networks among state universities and colleges (SUCs) will improve research and development while allowing students to transact online, according to Catanduanes Representative Joseph Santiago.

MANILA, Philippines – The local manufacturing and outsourcing sectors are the biggest software pirates in the country, due mainly to the large number of computers that they use in their operations.

Proposed bill supports current voice, SMS rates MANILA, Philippines – Manila Representative Congresswoman Maria Theresa Bonoan-David has filed a bill seeking to mandate telecommunications firms to allot a portion of their revenues for health and education programs for children.

The Arroyo administration increased the number of beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, or 4Ps to one million poor families a month from 700,000 families a month.

DuPont Co., a giant multinational operating in 70 countries providing products for agriculture, apparel, communications, electronics, home and construction, nutrition, safety and transportation, is being sued in Delaware for asbestos-related illnesses incurred by three workers from its former Argentina nylon fabricating plant.

The Philippines has convinced five lawmakers from the US Congress to sponsor a bill aimed at giving duty-free or reduced tariffs on local garment exports made of US fabric.

I have three “guests” in my house, promdi relatives who came to Manila in search of the proverbial green pasture. Two are undergraduates who dropped out of college in Tacloban City—one because he lost interest in pursuing a college degree; the other one because she got pregnant and had to get married. In typical Pinoy…

The battle to recruit and retain qualified call center personnel just got tougher.

At least three left-leaning congressmen are bent on running for senator in the 2010 elections and one of them has agreed to join the senatorial ticket of deposed President Joseph Estrada’s political party.

THE government has raised its programmed spending next year by P35 billion to bankroll the stimulus package of the Arroyo administration and keep the economy from sliding into recession.

MANILA, Philippines – The country posted a consolidated public sector surplus of P28.67 billion in 2008 or 0.4 percent of gross domestic product, (GDP), marking the third consecutive yearly surplus for the public sector, latest data from the Department of Finance (DOF) showed.

You may have a good idea and you may want to turn it into your business, so go for it … after you make your business plan. Business plans are written declarations of your business goals: what you aim to achieve, why you think you can reach these goals and how you plan to reach…

The automation of the 2010 elections is a step in the right direction to insure that the results are accurate and will be known in a matter of hours. But it does not necessarily insure that the winners are the best and the wisest choices of the electorate. More important than automation is the education…

MANILA, Philippines – Catholic bishops have vowed to continue to support pro-life groups in opposing the passage of the controversial Reproductive Health Bill.

MANILA, Philippines – Filipino workers continue to sneak into Lebanon even as negotiations for the lifting of the deployment ban there remained uncertain.

SANTIAGO CITY, Philippines – Finance Secretary Margarito Teves sees the growing population of Filipinos as one reason why benefits from the country’s economic upswing have not trickled down to the poor.

A Sangamon County jury last week awarded a former Springfield postal worker and part-time handyman $2 million at the conclusion of an asbestos-exposure trial.

An Act Protecting Employees in Cases of Merger or Consolidation, Sale or Transfer of All or Substantially All Assets or Businesses of Their Employers and Other Purposes Continues the employment of workers if the resulting company becomes bigger, otherwise redundancy is the only ground for termination of employment and sets out rules on recognition of…

An Act Adopting Integrated Coastal Management as a National Strategy to Ensure the Sustainable Development of the Country’s Coastal and Marine Environment Resources and Establishing Supporting Mechanisms for Its Implementation. Adopts ICM as the policy framework to promote the sustainable development of coastal and marine environment and resources for food security, sustainable livelihood, poverty alleviation…

Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) Vice President Alejandro Villaviza and TUCP Part-list Representative Raymond Democrito Mendoza welcomed the resolve of trade union leaders attending the NACUSIP / PACIWU / CIO–ALU / FLO–ALU  National Convention to pursue more aggressive action on Reproductive Health programs and services in the workplace at the company and local…

Victims’ families appeal for government’s help MANILA, Philippines—Twenty-three Filipino seamen who were kidnapped five months ago by Somali pirates are now with hardly any food and water aboard their hijacked ship MV Irene, their families said recently.

MANILA, Philippines—Pregnancy outside of marriage may not be used as a reason to expel or refuse teachers and students from school with the passage of the Magna Carta of Women, Senator Pia Cayetano pointed out Sunday.

MANILA, Philippines—Worried over the growing number of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) infected with HIV, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) wants government agencies to build up efforts to heighten awareness of the disease among foreign-bound laborers.

MANILA, Philippines – Police have detained 10 leaders, members and employees of an overseas Filipino workers’ group in Saudi Arabia on suspicion that they were harboring runaway OFWs who had been charged criminally by their employers.

MANILA, Philippines—The top official of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) on Sunday said that he would ban passenger jeepneys from plying Edsa with the completion of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) 1 North Extension Project next year.

Escape from crossfire (First of two parts) DATU PIANG, Maguindanao—Now that his year-old son has recovered from diarrhea inside an evacuation camp here, Zacaria Lipulis is anxious to go back to his farm in Barangay Ganta in nearby Datu Saudi Ampatuan town so he can adequately feed his family with corn and other root crops.

MANILA, Philippines—Health Secretary Francisco Duque III Sunday urged the public to bring complaints against drugstores that continue to sell medicine at exorbitant prices to their nearest health center.

MANILA, Philippines—As the military poured more weapons into Mindanao following President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s order to “annihilate” the Abu Sayyaf bandits, the country’s top human rights watchdog Sunday warned warring sides against committing atrocities on both civilians and combatants.

CEBU, Philippines – Abuse charges were filed in court against two Indian nationals for allegedly abusing their house help sexually inside their rented house in Maghaway, Talisay City.

MANILA, Philippines – Catholic bishops have vowed to continue to support pro-life groups in opposing the passage of the controversial Reproductive Health Bill.